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Monday, March 26, 2012

The International Journal of Multimedia Technology (IJMT) is a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal, focusing on theories, methods, algorithms, and applications in multimedia. It provides a forum for academic researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, consultants, managers, educators and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on multimedia technology.

IJMT covers the breadth of research in multimedia technology. IJMT invites original, previously unpublished, research, survey and tutorial papers, plus case studies and short research notes, on both applied and theoretical aspects of multimedia technology.

Objectives:IJMT is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of multimedia technology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of multimedia technology.

There is a scholarship available for Postgraduate Diploma in the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering of Technical University of Crete, Greece at the Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (http://www.music.tuc.gr/) in the broader field of Graphics and Virtual Environments.

This research is related to fidelity measures on simulation of light in three dimensionalgraphics systems in collaboration with neuroscience. This graduate program will be done in a collaboration with the Medical Faculty of the University of Sussex in Great Britain and includes a visit to England. For more information, contact directly with the scientific program manager,Assist. Professor Katerina Mania.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu/) reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Submission Deadline Extended to April 7, 2012

Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of many simple local interactions. They account often for real phenomena or solutions of problems, whose high complexity could unlikely be formalised in different contexts.

Furthermore parallelism and locality features of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy parallelisation, therefore an immediate implementation on parallel computing resources. These characteristics of the CA research resulted in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These teams produce remarkable research results and attract scientists from different fields.

The main goal of the 10th edition of ACRI 2012 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to offer both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity to express and discuss their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art solutions to various problems in the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy, geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control, etc.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based models and systems include but are not limited to:

ABSTRACT Research in AI has built upon the tools and techniques of many different disciplines, including formal logic, probability theory, decision theory, management science, linguistics and philosophy. However, the application of these disciplines in AI has necessitated the development of many enhancements and extensions. Among the most powerful of these are the methods of computational logic. I will argue that computational logic, embedded in an agent cycle, combines and improves upon both traditional logic and classical decision theory. I will also argue that many of its methods can be used, not only in AI, but also in ordinary life, to help people improve their own human intelligence without the assistance of computers

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

ICPR2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), which will be held during November 11-15, 2012.

ICPR 2012 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.

[Paper Submission]

Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the conference website before March 31st, 2012.

Monday, March 12, 2012

We are happy to announce our MPEG-V Validator which is available here.

The validator offers the possibility to validate descriptions for MPEG-V Part 2 (CIM), 3 (SEM), 4 (VWOC), and 5 (IIM). This can either be done via file upload, URL or direct input of the description. Furthermore, the validator checks not only schema compliance but also semantic compliance of a description as specified in the corresponding parts of the standard.

Feel free to test the MPEG-V validator (examples are provided) and provide us with your feedback.

Monday, March 5, 2012

"So, how does one search for images that aren't tagged with keywords? Google does offer its sometimes-spotty search by image, but what if you don't have an image handy that looks like what you're searching for? Microsoft, reports GeekWire, offers a solution that's 'a little like playing Pictionary with a search engine — drawing a sketch and seeing if the algorithm can return pictures that match it.' That's the concept behind Microsoft Research's patent-pending 'MindFinder' project, which has already been incorporated into a Windows Phone app called Sketch Match. A patent application made public Thursday notes that touch computing makes sketching easier than ever, making one wonder if we'll be 'giving Bing the finger' with Windows 8!"

Saturday, March 3, 2012

NAO Next Gen: Aldebaran Robotics launches a new generation of its humanoid robotAldebaran Robotics, the world leader in humanoid robotics, has released its latest version of the NAO robot — NAO Next Gen. The power of NAO Next Gen, the new fully programmable humanoid robot that has the most extensive worldwide use, is opening up new perspectives and fields of application for its users.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Do you have many recorded photos and videos in your camera roll? Do you want to efficiently browse your recordings grouped by time and with a spellbinding 3D interface? Then this iPhone/iPad app is right for you!

Time!Sphere presents a 3D timeline of your recordings!

You can browse the most recent 2000 photos and videos in your camera roll by recording time(grouped by day, week, month, or year). Your entries are arranged in a 3D cross interface that can be rotated through wipe gestures. Photos of the same time group are arranged vertically (e.g., all photos of a specific week) while photos of different time groups are arranged horizontally (e.g., different weeks).

LireDemo 0.9.1 was released. Changes include several bug fixes, whereas the most critical was the one that prevented the indexing process from indexing a whole directory. Also the an SVN version of Lire has been compiled and added.

Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of many simple local interactions. They account often for real phenomena or solutions of problems, whose high complexity could unlikely be formalised in different contexts.

Furthermore parallelism and locality features of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy parallelisation, therefore an immediate implementation on parallel computing resources. These characteristics of the CA research resulted in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These teams produce remarkable research results and attract scientists from different fields.

The main goal of the 10th edition of ACRI 2012 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to offer both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity to express and discuss their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art solutions to various problems in the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy, geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control, etc.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based models and systems include but are not limited to:

Algebraic properties and generalization

Complex systems

Computational complexity

Dynamical systems

Hardware circuits, architectures, systems and applications

Modeling of biological systems

Modeling of physical or chemical systems

Modeling of ecological and environmental systems

Image Processing and pattern recognition

Natural Computing Quantum Cellular Automata

Parallelism

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting their original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to the usual LNCS article style. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at Springer as well as at ACRI 2012submission page. The submission system is now open and early submissions are welcome. Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described above and submit a pdf file via Easychair system.

PUBLICATION:A volume of proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available by the time of the conference. After the conference, refereed volumes of selected proceedings containing extended papers will be organized as special issues of ISI international journals like Journal of Cellular Automata.

IMPORTANT DATES:Paper submission: March 19, 2012Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 15, 2012Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 14, 2012Conference: September 24-27, 2012

WORKSHOPS:This edition of the ACRI conference also hosts workshops on recent and important research topics on theory and applications of Cellular Automata like the following: Crowds and Cellular Automata (3rd edition), Asynchronous Cellular Automata (2nd edition), Traffic and Cellular Automata (2nd edition), and Cellular Automata Models of Cancer Growth and Invasion (1st Edition). More information regarding the aforementioned workshops, the corresponding important dates and special issues can be found at Workshops page.

ImageCLEF provides an evaluation forum for the cross language annotation and retrieval of images.

Motivated by the need to support multilingual users from a global community accessing the ever growing body of visual information, the main goal of ImageCLEF is to support the advancement of the field of visual media analysis, indexing, classification, and retrieval. To this end, ImageCLEF develops the necessary infrastructure for the evaluation of visual information retrieval systems operating in both monolingual, cross-language and language-independent contexts and provides reusable resources for such benchmarking purposes.

SIMPLE Descriptors

A set of local image descriptors specifically designed for image retrieval tasks.

Compact Composite Descriptors

A set of global image descriptors for image retrieval tasks.

MPEG-7 Descriptors

Download the latest Version of MPEG-7 Descriptors for C#. The implementation of these descriptors is based on Lire image retrieval System (Lire). Download the Descriptors

The LIRE (Lucene Image REtrieval) library provides a simple way to retrieve images and photos based on their color and texture characteristics. LIRE creates a Lucene index of image features for content based image retrieval (CBIR). Three of the available image features are taken from the MPEG-7 Standard: ScalableColor, ColorLayout and EdgeHistogram a fourth one, the Auto Color Correlogram has been implemented based on recent research results. Furthermore simple methods for searching the index and result browsing are provided by LIRE. The LIRE library and the LIRE Demo application as well as all the source are available under the Gnu GPL license.

Img(Rummager)

Img(Rummager) software can be connected with a database and execute a retrieval procedure, extracting the necessary for the comparison features in real time. The image-database can be stored either in the computer where the retrieval is actually taking place, or in a local network. Moreover, this software is capable of executing retrieval procedure among the keyword-based results that FlickR provides. Read More

Several image processing and retrieval examples using c#

Caliph & Emir
Caliph & Emir are MPEG-7 based Java prototypes for digital photo and image annotation and retrieval supporting graph like annotation for semantic metadata and content based image retrieval using MPEG-7 descriptors
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